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JONES COUNTY COURTHOUSE

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1907–1908, P. J. Krouse; 1936 jail addition, Overstreet and Town, with Louis W. Duffee; 1961 addition, Hunt and Suffling. 415 N. 5th Ave.

Jones County’s two seats, Laurel and Ellisville, have identical courthouses designed by the same architect. Laurel’s sits on a smaller square, and its several additions further crowd its site. The tan brick Classical Revival courthouse features a pedimented portico with paired Ionic stone columns. In 1936, Overstreet and Town, with local architect Duffee, designed the Art Deco, monolithic concrete jail addition, with its W. 5th Street entrance marked by stylized bas-relief eagles. On the front lawn, a Doric tempietto (1912, McNeel Marble Works) shelters a grieving woman; above, a Confederate soldier stands at rest.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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LAUREL CITY HALL
FIRST-TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
TRUSTMARK BANK (COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK)
LAUREN ROGERS LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
NORTH 5TH AND NORTH 6TH AVENUES RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "JONES COUNTY COURTHOUSE", [Laurel, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PW11.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 307-307.

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